The acceptance of slavery was anti-liberty. I can't think of anything more anti-liberty than owning another man, and being able to sell his family members off with little or no input from him. Being able to take liberties with the ladies without their consent is abhorrent too. The founders got torqued about being taxed without representation, and that pales in comparison. Slavery removed all the freedom of some. Better to have repatriated them all at the beginning, if they chose to be repatriated, and stopped the insanity then instead of bearing the cost of the uncivil war 90 years later. It's never too early or too hard to do the right thing.

OK, this one I am going to take a lot of crap for, but it's the way I feel. The right to keep arms is not absolute. It makes no sense to be able to have your own nukes, so there are some reasonable limits. Now, I would definitely make things less limited to the way they are now. National carry rights are reasonable. Handguns and rifles of any caliber are OK with me. Fully auto should not require a special permission or cost. Suppressors should come with the darn gun. Without any special permission or cost. I'm OK with the mentally ill or properly convicted felon not being able to own guns. If there are redeeming qualities in the individual, a pardon would be in order. But I'm OK with that hurdle being placed in their way. I'm OK with carrying in a bar, as long as you are not legally intoxicated. Go ahead and have A beer, but don't get sloppy while carrying, have the designated driver carry and back you up. I do see the wisdom in making the statement in an absolute way, as they did, as limitation should be much harder than allowance.

I'm really wishing that a right to fail had been included in the bill of rights. People should have an absolute and irrefutable right to be poor.

In the same line of thinking, a balanced budget requirement should have been included. Deficit spending is a theft from future generations. We can do what we can do, and should never have attempted to correct the problems of all people by spending money we didn't have. We all make due with what we have, and we as a people should have committed to do the same. That one omission will likely lead us all into very interesting times, which we may not recover from as an intact union.

A right to die when you are ready would have been a good idea. You have a right to live as long as your body supports that wish, but we all die at least once, might as well have the right to exit with dignity and style, when we are ready.

A right to play if you can pay your own way would be cool with me too. If you want to amuse/abuse your body, that's your choice. But you should have to take responsibility for that choice. Don't suck down a fifth of vodka a day for 30 years, and then repent and expect the taxpayers to provide the funds needed for your liver transplant. Same goes for smoking, or any other substance.

It was a darn good try, by men that were imperfect themselves, some even despicable men, but it was a good try, and it did pretty well.

But I can't gripe too much, I wasn't around when these things were being decided. Some normal humans gave it their best shot, and did a pretty good job of it. Of all the places I have been, this is the place I CHOOSE to call home, and I'd rather be here than anywhere else.

Slavery would have been nice to leave out but that would have driven the south away from the north from the beginningand instead of a civil war over where slave/free states should be it would effectively be two nations fighting each other. It wouldn't have lasted the War of 1812 anyway without a larger United States.

The acceptance of slavery was anti-liberty. I can't think of anything more anti-liberty than owning another man, and being able to sell his family members off with little or no input from him. Being able to take liberties with the ladies without their consent is abhorrent too. The founders got torqued about being taxed without representation, and that pales in comparison. Slavery removed all the freedom of some. Better to have repatriated them all at the beginning, if they chose to be repatriated, and stopped the insanity then instead of bearing the cost of the uncivil war 90 years later. It's never too early or too hard to do the right thing.

OK, this one I am going to take a lot of crap for, but it's the way I feel. The right to keep arms is not absolute. It makes no sense to be able to have your own nukes, so there are some reasonable limits. Now, I would definitely make things less limited to the way they are now. National carry rights are reasonable. Handguns and rifles of any caliber are OK with me. Fully auto should not require a special permission or cost. Suppressors should come with the darn gun. Without any special permission or cost. I'm OK with the mentally ill or properly convicted felon not being able to own guns. If there are redeeming qualities in the individual, a pardon would be in order. But I'm OK with that hurdle being placed in their way. I'm OK with carrying in a bar, as long as you are not legally intoxicated. Go ahead and have A beer, but don't get sloppy while carrying, have the designated driver carry and back you up. I do see the wisdom in making the statement in an absolute way, as they did, as limitation should be much harder than allowance.

I'm really wishing that a right to fail had been included in the bill of rights. People should have an absolute and irrefutable right to be poor.

In the same line of thinking, a balanced budget requirement should have been included. Deficit spending is a theft from future generations. We can do what we can do, and should never have attempted to correct the problems of all people by spending money we didn't have. We all make due with what we have, and we as a people should have committed to do the same. That one omission will likely lead us all into very interesting times, which we may not recover from as an intact union.

A right to die when you are ready would have been a good idea. You have a right to live as long as your body supports that wish, but we all die at least once, might as well have the right to exit with dignity and style, when we are ready.

A right to play if you can pay your own way would be cool with me too. If you want to amuse/abuse your body, that's your choice. But you should have to take responsibility for that choice. Don't suck down a fifth of vodka a day for 30 years, and then repent and expect the taxpayers to provide the funds needed for your liver transplant. Same goes for smoking, or any other substance.

It was a darn good try, by men that were imperfect themselves, some even despicable men, but it was a good try, and it did pretty well.

But I can't gripe too much, I wasn't around when these things were being decided. Some normal humans gave it their best shot, and did a pretty good job of it. Of all the places I have been, this is the place I CHOOSE to call home, and I'd rather be here than anywhere else.

Slavery would have been nice to leave out but that would have driven the south away from the north from the beginningand instead of a civil war over where slave/free states should be it would effectively be two nations fighting each other. It wouldn't have lasted the War of 1812 anyway without a larger United States.

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Correct me if I'm wrong but was there not slavery in all of the states at that time?

Term limits. They should have been included from day one. Thinking people will be and do honorable things never works around politics. The illusion of power is a powerful narcotic.

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Term limits is not the issue. Seniority rights is the issue. Just because someone from a podunk state gets elected repeatedly should not allow him more rights in Congress than any other Congressman. This isn't a constitutional issue, either, since Congress could change their internal rules at any time.

Term limits is not the issue. Seniority rights is the issue. Just because someone from a podunk state gets elected repeatedly should not allow him more rights in Congress than any other Congressman. This isn't a constitutional issue, either, since Congress could change their internal rules at any time.

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